By Natalie Amsden Rivera While growing up, my holiday home had halls decked with holly, a menorah in the window, and a “Chanamus” tree. I come from a multiracial, religiously diverse family. My mom’s family is Jewish and my dad’s…
The Science of True Love
By Joeel A. Rivera Mi Cielo (My Heaven), I have heard many times the phrases “there are no words to truly explain how I feel” or that a person is someone’s “other half”. However, I always perceived them through society’s…
Awakening: Give Your Pain a Purpose
By Natalie Amsden We all have pain. It’s inevitable. It’s part of life. But, the first thing I want to get clear is that there’s a difference between pain and suffering. Pain happens when your life circumstances do not match…
Is Your Reality Boxed In?
By Joeel A. Rivera There have been moments of great change and transformation throughout my life, to the extent that I feel as if I have lived many lives within one. As we grow up, we develop ideas about relationships,…
Eliminate Childhood Mind Viruses
Every one of us exits childhood with our own unique cocktail of patterns, programming, beliefs, habits, preferences, expectations, and mind viruses. Some of these ingrained pieces of our psyche are positive, such as saying please and thank you, brushing our…
The Way it Is: How It Works
There’s more to it, of course, get the whole story at www.spiritwithasmile.com. The Force we call BOB (Being of Bliss) is exactly that—a Force—a Power, but definitely not a person. Ever so much more, Its composition is Mind, Feeling, and…
The Way It Is: Introducing BOB
There’s more to it, of course, get the whole story at www.spiritwithasmile.com. Last month we talked about Belief Systems (B.S.) and how they work. The rest of these columns will present a new belief system that isn’t really new, but…